Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware PowerCLI 10.0.0 is the new release of PowerCLI and the first to become multi-platform: it adds support for Mac OS and Linux!
Thanks to Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0, the open-sourced version of PowerShell that’s available on a number of operating systems, from Windows to Linux to Mac OS.
This release brings support for the following modules:
- VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core
- VMware.VimAutomation.Common
- VMware.VimAutomation.Core
- VMware.VimAutomation.Nsxt
- VMware.VimAutomation.Vds
- VMware.VimAutomation.Vmc
- VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk
- VMware.VimAutomation.Storage
- VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility
The installation process remain the same of the previous version:
Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser
Maybe somebody is asking why v10.0, and not 6.5 something?
VMware has provide the answer with three different reasons:
- This was a HUGE release, with some behavioral changes, so it needed to be a major number change.
- They want to distance PowerCLI versioning from vSphere versioning to eliminate confusion.
- PowerCLI is 10 years old!

Maybe there also another reason, that 10 (or X) seems the “magic number” for several software versions…
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